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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump says that it “seems unlikely” that he’d give an interview in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Trump said “we’ll see what happens” when asked if he’d provide an interview to Mueller’s team.
“When they have no collusion and nobody’s found any collusion at any level, it seems unlikely that you’d even have an interview,” Trump said yesterday during a joint news conference with the prime minister of Norway.
The special counsel’s team of investigators has expressed interest in speaking with Trump, but no details have been worked out. Trump’s lawyers have previously stated their determination to cooperate with requests in the probe, which has already resulted in charges against four of Trump’s campaign advisers.
Trump called the investigation a “phony cloud” over his administration.
“It has hurt our government,” he said. “It was a Democrat hoax.”
Trump’s words differed from what he said at a news conference in June, shortly after fired FBI Director James Comey had told Congress that Trump asked him for a pledge of loyalty.
Trump denied that, and said he’d be “100%” willing to tell his version of events under oath. He said he’d be “glad to” speak to Mueller about it.
The comments come after Trump had already lashed out at the investigations on Twitter, urging Republicans to take control of the inquiries and repeating his claim that they are on a “witch hunt.”
In a separate tweet Trump accused Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of being “underhanded and a disgrace” for disclosing details of a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia during the presidential campaign.
“The fact that Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between Trump/Russia has not been found, would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way, totally without authorisation, is a disgrace,” Trump tweeted. “Must have tough Primary!”
The material wasn’t classified, and Feinstein said that she didn’t do anything illegal.
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The tiger is beginning to purr again. We’ll never learn
Not we Monty, They.
True that Karen. From 2001-2007 I used to hear people say “you gotta buy a house now, get on the property ladder before house prices go through the roof”. I hadn’t heard it said again until the other day and I thought, f@@k me here we go again.
Really people are saying it again? God they seriously have short memories. No one should buy till prices go down again. And when they see them rise again stop buying. After all they are only bidding themselves out of homes. Common sense when will it ever prevail.
Thank god i havent heard anyone say it as of yet.
Articles like this really bring me back. The media never took responsibility for its role in the property boom hype.
You either rent for more than a mortgage or get a mortgage, that’s the way it is at the moment. Our house were renting past two months people are shocked at how much we spent on rent. 6 people in the half hr viewing where there the first day it went on market we took it straight away after spending 6 months looking for somewhere. People are getting desperate!
Sharon…. borrow 300K pay back 600K. Add on your maintenance, home insurance, forced life assurance, water rates, property tax and serious inflexibility and it’s not so cut and dry.
So I take it you guys don’t need a house then
It’s no different for renters? We are passed on the rates and bills for property taxes and water rates while not even been able to put a nail in a wall or paint a room without clearing the Ok with a landlord. It’s all well and good people saying there’s a bubble but unless the supply increases the demand just rises. We pay more than a 600k mortgage would be, but because banks aren’t lending and paying this amount is crippling we can’t “afford” to buy so it’s an endless circle.
myself and my wife have been looking to buy for the past 9 months, we are mortgage approved etc if you watched desperate house buys on rte we have done all that queuing up to look at a property, placing bids, dealing with the most disgusting human beings on the planet “estate agents”.
Rude obnoxious are words that just do not describe enough these people. As soon as they hear cash buy they do not call you back they have no interest in mortgage deals.
This is not a good time to buy you are dealing with cash buyers who are coming back from abroad or foreign people who live here who saved like mad during the boom or Irish people who avoided the boom/bust and are now looking at entering the market.
As soon as the cash deals dry up then the market will correct itself because banks are very strict in what you can borrow. I’m very curious if revenue are looking into these “cash buys” some of it would have to be dodgy. We have decided to keep renting.
If you still have any significant savings in our ‘pillar banks’, I would strongly advise you move it somewhere safe before the next inevitable catastrophe.
Sharon, Dublin is ridiculously priced but at some point the supply will increase. It’s likely that in the decades spent paying back your mortgage, so will the rate of borrowing (how much every year will you be paying the bank for a mortgage for a house at this price?). Panic buying lead to the last bubble and currently developers, bankers and those with properties to let are stifling the property market to artificially raise existing property prices. It’s ridiculous after a recession but I think the best advice is to sit tight if you can afford to, move if you can’t. I’d rather emigrate than donate the rest of my life’s earning to this madness.
My brother in 2005 ” we should buy a few houses together and rent them out ” my response (20 years old at the time) ” nahh I just want to drink and go on holidays and have fun ” my soul is intact thankfully.
People in a panic and getting stressed, for what??? Just rent and wait till you can afford again. If its catch 22 and rent stops you saving deposit no point stressing, enjoy life. If this kip is doing your head in then emigrate. More to this world than Ireland and we are blessed we speak English
Anyone who pays 550k for that house, seriously needs their head examined.
It’s hype. The estate agents are massively talking up what demand there is and pushing up asking prices to make people panic and think they’d better jump on board.
“…the DNG estate agent on the day, who said buyers are definitely more patient with their search now ..one informal offer of €530,000 had already been put in on this property that day”
For “more patient” read “We’ve managed to make them look, but the ****ers are not bidding”.
For “informal offer” read “Nobody has made an offer”
The next task as these vultures see it is to MAKE people actually buy at these prices, by talking it up endlessly and publishing articles like this.
Ye think it was the same DNG guy who, on the recent RTE program about the property market, admitted on camera that he would gazump someone once the house had gone sale agreed. Nothing has changed really.. Just that everyone seems to know all about bubbles.
Ireland and Michael Jackson, forever blowing bubbles.
Bear in mind that this site is owned by the same people as Daft.ie, who have a vested interest in blowing up this bubble again. So read it as what it is – an ad, a puff piece trying to scare people and push us into the madness again.
It’s all greed the person selling that house should be a shamed asking that price for that house I hope anyone looking at it check out every thing from the front gate to the back door and the gutters and the roof because when your surveyor goes in he will not check out all off those things because he will be in his nice suit
Katie, guarantee they will delete your comment when they see it, they won’t like it being seen as an ad for Daft.
In fairness you can’t blame them. If I was selling my house, I’d want as much cha-ching as possible for it.
This is, of course, an inflationary piece by the journal on behalf of daft.ie. I’m seeing more of these on this site every day. If you pay 550,000 on a 3 bed semi that needs work then good luck to you. You’re an idiot. I was an idiot and bought a 2 bed terraced house for 300,000 that needed work at the height of the boom. Guess what, it still needs work. I don’t have the money to fix it up because of the crippling mortgage so I’m now stuck in a house that has electrical work from the 70′s. It’s quite unsafe. Stay where you are until people cop on. If you can.
I don’t see what is wrong with Gazumping.
If I’m selling my house, I want my agent to do everything to get the best price for me.
simple concept… what goes around comes around.
I’ve being away for a while but good to see the frenzy is been kept alive and well by Daft/Journal et al
@monty moonshine, who exactly are “we” I did not gamble,speculate or borrow during the so called Celtic Tiger era. Neither did any of my friends but we are all paying the price of those who did.
I know Brian, and we will be paying for many a year to come.
@Brian. We are paying for what the banks and gov. did.
Please defer from blaming the people who bought houses to rear their families in.
They are paying a lot more than you and they got no bail-out.
I have a six bed detatched with 3 en-suite for sale for well less than half the asking price for this! Location location?? Geeez.
Churchtown isn’t even a great location. It’s fine but fairly hum drum.
Where as a friend of mine is looking for a house and yours sounds ideal.
Ludicrous…….ludicrous ludicrous ludicrous. Making the same mistakes but expecting a different outcome. Einstein will be turning in his grave.
Well said!!;) Then again these buyers arent likely Einstein fans either…
I still don’t know what a tracker mortgage is
Lol
It doesn’t exist.. Shsssh!
We haven’t even got off the floor and we’re about to fall over again. Is anyone driving this bus?
I am!! Beep! Beep!
All aboard the bus to Obivion!
The reason the prices are going so high is panic buying, all those who sold in 06 07 and then laughed as the prices went south are now back, they sat back and watched the prices drop by 60 70 % and still sat on there hands waiting for it to drop more! but it didn’t happen and now the panic is on, tough shit! I feel sorry for first time buyers who are going to get screwed again,
Anyone want to buy some patio heaters ?
I need to buy some decking first. Decking for everyone. Hurrahhhhhh
Let’s get patio’d
“it’s buy now or pay more for it in 12 months,” he said.” – The same song these goons were singing in 2008.
Around the goldfish bowl and we start again. But don’t worry, when the market crashes in flames again the taxpayer will pick up the tab. Hey quick fact, do you know NAMA has over 90 property developers on their books that get paid a f#$king wage from SCAMA! You couldn’t make this crap up.
Shame on journal.ie for printing these articles inducing panic in the market to push up prices. Another bubble? Interesting to find out they’re owned by Daft.ie
Have been to a few ‘open viewings’ in Dublin in recent weeks. It’s been crazy, house full of people, no parking half way up the street with the amount of people viewing. Offers being made there and then, of asking and above!! No shortage of money or mortgages in Dublin!!
Panic on the streets of Dublin…
Better got on the ladder quick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They should really bring in some first time buyer regulations. Sellers only allowed sell the genuine buyers looking for a home. Not property developers looking to make even more money. And all these new places to be built by 2020 should be decent size places not poxy box sized one bed apartments, or crappy houses you couldn’t swing a cat in. People want homes they can call their own and raise a family in.
All very well and good but in fairness people have a right to sell their own property at whatever price they like, equally purchasers have the right to spend whatever amount of money. Sure you can’t restrict people’s freedoms.
You sure about that Truth Patrol?
Yes it’s called a free market economy, they tried government regulation of everything in Russia back in the day, the entire population almost staved to death so they changed to our system and are now better at it than we are.
Seriously, how many articles saying the same thing are you going to print!
It’s not a bubble, it’s simple economics at play here. Supply and Demand. Prices will rise continually if people are prepared to pay, if there’s not enough supply the people with the most resources will outbid the others.
I don’t really know how this situation could have been prevented as all the developers were wiped out so nobody built anything. Possibly something government led. But of course we had Austerity which for some reason didn’t include proper forward planning, just pay back the bondholders asap and feck everything else in the country.
Karl it’s not economics, its called propaganda! Estate agents tell everyone that houses are getting hard to come by and the prices are rising. The likes of the Journal promote the lies and mugs fall for it hook, line and sinker! I live about an hour and a half from Dublin and as I drove past the ghost estates and the regular houses for sale there were no queues in sight! Folks need to wake up!
as you say Naoimh you live 1 1/2 hours from Dublin , this is a very real situation in South Dublin and a lot of people are not prepared to do a 3 hour daily commute .
The thing is in South Dublin it isn’t propaganda. We bought a house here a little over a year ago and I can tell you the first signs of what’s being reported widely now were in full swing back then. Increases in people viewing, we even got into a bidding war unintentionally for a fairly non descript three bed semi before we backed off.
Another warning sign is the fact that rents in South Dublin are absolutely rocketing up, and at this stage are at or past Celtic Tiger levels.
In fact the going monthly rent of the apartment we moved out of when we bought a house is actually more than our mortgage repayments. And as a result people are being squeezed by the landlord making it even harder for them to save for deposits.
Of course, none of what’s happening here is comparable to areas an hour and a half outside Dublin, this phenomenon is limited to very specific geographical areas.
James, it’s pure stupidity! I lived in London for years and I used to travel to work every day and it took me approx 1:15 minutes. I also worked in Toronto for a few years and I used to travel one and half hours into the city and back work every day! I know plenty who commute to Dublin daily from where I live. If folks that don’t like to commute to work and are willing to pay 250000 – 300000 more for the pleasure then by all means pay it. But don’t be whinging when things go arse up again which they will do.
Don’t know why you’re getting so many red thumbs Karl. You’re spot on.
It is the reality at the minute that demand far outweighs supply so of course prices are rising. I cannot see this changing for quite a while as there’s no sign of an increase in supply anytime soon.
The market was certainly undervalued for the past few years & there is a necessary correction happening now, with possibly a slight overvaluation starting to creep in. I bought last July & the price of my house must be up €100k at least since then.
I bought because the house couldn’t have been built for what I bought it for, so I effectively was getting a free site was my opinion. Everyone I spoke to then said I was mad as prices were going to keep falling. It’s probably the same people on here now claiming this is just a daft.ie add.
We bought last august as we felt that prices couldnt fall much lower and what we bought our 5 bed detached for then was an absolute bargain so despite relations saying ye are mad prices will come down a lot more we put in an offer and got it – house just around the corner in same estate with smaller garden is up for sale for 45k more than we paid – its all down to location
This is terrible news especially with an impending world crash around the corner again
Same thing in some communities in Cork…properties showing up on websites and then you ask to view them and they are “sale agreed”…open houses where there are already multiple bids on the property…auctioneers acting like they own the world. Seriously annoying. Rent if you have to, but we can’t bow to the bubble as we’ll suffer if we do.
A fool and his money..
New big shiney Auctioner shops are opening up in every village in Dublin…
And revenue are delighted as house prices go mad again. Are we suppose to revalue our gaffs for them based on this madness?
Great point Paul. Our tax liability rises for doing nothing at all. Lazy dept / incompetent minister by introducing a tax on value.
1 million for that house during the boom is crazy. No wonder you had a crash. You can buy cheaper in London.
Not much use if you want to live in Dublin
Well obviously!!! As I said no wonder you had a crash, with a house like that costing €1 million. Crazy……
More hype over nothing. Auctioneers are getting desperate but if people believe this shite then they deserve to be gazumped
Unfortunately their gazumping will contribute to the destruction of the country again!
Three bed houses of this type in Churchtown at the lowest during the crash were 350k. This area is not first time buyers area instead people on the ladder now moving a third or more time
“You’d need your head examined”, “What kind of idiot would…..” etc are common when people are talking about the people who consider spending money like this. I would ask the people to consider the following: A married couple on a very modest wage have no entitlement to social housing which means its rent or its mortgage. If such a couple are looking for a HOME to start a family in, then consider the following: Private renting brings NO security. You can be moved out at the behest of your landlord, and I know of many who have had to uproot numerous times. So, people talking about “You have to be an idiot” should point their stare firmly at our government. It is madness that especially after the last bubble, that our government are happy to let this culture continue. Its one thing being single or childless and being moved on from your private rented accommodation, but families need a proper home and due to the lack of a reasonable alternative are pushed into these ridiculous mortgage games. Tougher regulation on both estate agents and lending institutions as well as quality social housing that is not synonymous with sh*t hole area’s are required.
Another avenue could be some kind of private renter rights that will serve the person renting rather than ameteur landlords just out to make a buck.
The Wunch of Bankers just trying to Max Your Debt again … don’t be fooled. Put your future in good safe hands … your own.
Word on the street is that viewings are quite a bit down. The mini resurgence is dead a number of months.
Depends on the streets that you are roaming
Great to see !
Still enough people chasing the few houses on the market and they are bringing big deposits to the table.
I Bought 5 years ago…the other week I got a phone call from the estate agent I bought off asking if was considering selling my house, that it had cash and loan approved buyers !!! Thought it was a wind up and hung up the phone, checked number and it was the estate agent, rang back to apologise and agent offered to come out to value the house. House a few doors up has been up for sale on and off for 4 years…no one would touch it, recently went sale agreed for double the original asking price 4 years ago!!!
It’s madness!!
Nice work journal. Just completely ignore the houses where the mortgages are not being paid, not repossessed and the resultant market logjam. It’s called “foreclosure stuffing” and it’s happening in the US too.
While some enjoy housing for free, everybody else is paying more.
By ‘enjoying housing for free’, you aren’t referring to ‘family who cant afford mortgage any more not yet being evicted from their home with no alternative housing option’ are you?
Not necessarily. Over two thirds of arrears are with an employed person in the house so they can rent just like everybody else who can’t afford to buy. Either way, if they can’t afford the house, then they need to downsize to something they can afford. Renters do it and there’s no outcry so why should people renting the mortgage capital be any different? PTSB scheme of writing off a chunk of the balance after sale looks promising and will hopefully encourage people to move on with their lives.
To get an idea of just how much this is messing up the market and making houses more expensive for people who actually want to buy, have a look at this thread from boards.ie.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056977313
Maybe if everyone stopped constantly taking about property and rent prices the problem wouldn’t be so bad.
So much news about it that people just turn it into some kind of catastrophe….hence prices keep rising.
To summarise – knock it off with these articles.
It’s amazing that an estate agent would only allow thirty minutes to view a house that they want you to but, along with many other people, for half a million euro and then say that they have been offered 530k on it. That means that a bidding war will surely ensue and the house will sell for nearer the 600k. It’s nothing really when you say it fast but when you are paying back double that 600k for the next 20 odd years or more, it won’t sound so good then. Are we really getting back to where we were seven or eight years ago? Has all the austerity measures that we have faced and will do for years to come not sunk into our heads yet. It’s unbelievable what we put up with.
If people and residential property companies were dis-incentivised to invest in residential property the economy would be much better off. SMEs, manufacturing, farming, research, etc would get more investment and jobs would be created, the revenue from PAYE would increase and there would be more jobs in construction of infrastructure, factories, offices, research units, etc. I think the government should tax 2nd homes and residential property companies should be taxed much more as they are creating a situation where few can afford a home and rental prices are too high. We should Revolutionise the whole residential housing so everybody can afford 1 home and if people or companies want to get involved in property investment they should be taxed at a really high rate. Investment residential property companies from other countries would go elsewhere to invest in property. Ireland should invest in people.
Hopefully Our new local councillors and politicians will implement change.
A lot of people would be forced to sell Buy to Let and 2nd homes at greatly reduced prices which would free up housing lists and allow young people to get a much smaller mortgage.
What we are creating is a situation where our younger generation will be paying for their parents morgage. In Switzerland the average home is so expensive the grandchildren are are left to finish off payments on the loan when they start work. 60 year mortgages and more are common
’tis great to see the economic assumption that consumers act rationally, is completely disproven….. for gazillionth time…..
We never learn, the auctioneer at it again they probably got a few people to put bids in to up the price like they did in the boom. Oh how they got away Scott free when they had a big hand in over inflating house prices before. People fall for it every time.
The problem is that phantom bids are not illegal in Ireland… it’s buyer beware!
In Uk there are serious fines for EA’s partaking in this and in Australia there is a jail sentence associated with it.
I love Ireland.
The reason there’s a housing crisis at the moment is not entirely due to a shortage of houses but due to a shortage of brown envelopes ….nudge nudge, wink wink. Once these start flowing again so will the houses.
True that
ECB Interest rates are at 0.5%. What will the mortgage repayments be like when they return to normal? New rules so the state will no longer be required to bail out banks mean that the margin banks are charged in the wholesale markets will increase. People stretching themselves to cover a new mortgage might regret it when rates go back up! Also the economy is going to continue dragging along the bottom as public and private debt is paid back there’s no boom coming to fuel price increases. Demand might cause upward pressure but prices must match what people can afford. If you have cash and you like the house go ahead, what the house falls by would be the same as the rent you pay over the next few years but otherwise be careful!
it’s two easy getting a mortgage now, AIB approved me a 400k loan when i applied 3 months ago. 400k??? that’s more money that i can make in a lifetime! (and a lot more than i asked) How can they assess me able to repay that? Coupled with an uncontrolled spike in lettings prices and an artificial shortage of supply this means only one thing to me: they are setting up another bubble.
@Luca – nonsense. You’ve been approved ‘in principle’ : you haven’t actually got any money. And with AIB at the helm I wouldn’t hold my breath. …The banks are approving people all the time, but as someone building every day I can guarantee you that if & when you try to draw it down, that’s when the fun starts. …Don’t forget that the banks are being monitored on a monthly basis for “approvals”, so approvals are a box ticking exercise for Govt purposes. There is no correlation between that and money being given out. Which just adds to the farce.
Here we go again, have we learnt nothing from the last bubble? it wasn’t that long ago. Gov loving this as the more the property is been sold for the more property tax they will get.
Shh stop telling people the bad stories of the past , let’s warm up the overpriced auctioneers , let’s get back the cocky valuers who charge but usually don’t even visit the house , let’s push 110 % mortgages , let’s get back in the crap overpaid builders who can afford their brand new jeeps and vans , it’s all good ? , this bubble is good news. , I want to be able to sell my house at a stupid price to someone who is delighted to have paid an extra 30k to hold the bid ,. Make my day fools cause I’ll sell and be on the plane out of this country with the biggest smile and sure in the knowledge that my kids will not suffer , knowing that they have a future to look for .
Time to take Eddie Hobbs out of the broom closet and dust him of!
This again is back to square one . Fuelled by estate agencies and the media. Trying to get the buyers to panic thereby pushing up prices. Jesus, did we not learn from the last bubble. I bet the government is loving this.
Don’t buy now!. No one buy now , wait and force the prices down . It may sound radical but it just might work batman! Don’t be sheep… AGAIN!
Whoever pays them prices deserve to be ripped off
Your paying for the location, god aint making any more land as they say!
We already have sprawling urbanisation. Ireland needs far, far fewer semi-detached houses with gardens and many more apartment buildings with open common spaces for children to play in, recreation, drying laundry, etc. The whole country can’t live in estates of semi-d’s!
Welcome to the housing bubble MKII.
Part of the panic is buyers viewing and bidding on the same day…… how many have offers on multiple properties ??? hence driving prices up…. how many reconsider over a weekend having done the sums….. too late the bid is in and someone has already bid over….STOP bidding on the day… Think and wait a couple of days… Another problem is the market has over corrected itself the prices fell far below and who knows why things stabilised and now due to demand and lack of supply is pushing prices up…… There are no real measure to correct it, no promises of supply…… all you can do is look at income, your current and future family plan, quality of life, rental expenditure and way it up…….
Try living in a two bed matchbox with no storage with 1-2 children. Fine if it’s France or elsewhere where builders were forced into building proper apartments with space to live. Pure greed here and looks like another bubble
Quick!!!
Sell me that fcuking half a million house of yours!!!
Yeah that one in need of renovation!!!
C’mon faster you b**locks!!!
I need to take out a €400k mortgage in time for when the ECB to put up the interest rates by 4%, up to where it was a few years ago.
I just can’t wait until I’m paying an extra sixteen grand a year in interest payments on my 35 year mortgage.
Not to mention my home improvement loan.
It’s in FG interest for the prices to go up regardless if it is temporary. Such a simple took to get votes at next GE.
We need economists to come out and tell it like it is – a f)€King bubble for God’s sake.
The vultures are circling.
Cap the prices
I’m with you comrade Sullivan.
Why is that house so expensive? Because we as a nation, are not right in the head when it comes to houses. That’s why. All other facts around this issue, are born from that one eternal fact. We need a good, long spell in therapy.
Could the present goverment please start talking to builders. Allow them to start building new houses to keep up with the demand. 40 couples looking at a property in 30 mins will of course drive up the price. People DO want to buy and i include myself as a new buyer. My age is against me but i am not willing to pay over the odds on a property like what people did in the boom years. We must learn from previous mistakes.
:-)
Do NAMA and our joke-banks need to keep stockpiling 10′s of thousands of homes?
Surely Daly, McDonagh,Boucher and Co can’t live in them all?
They’re no worth that, not even close to it.
Not*
Good value to turn it into a prison
I am trying to sell a beautiful four bedroom house in a very settled well sought after area of Tallaght with a granny flat/music room out back. In great condition, only needs a lick of paint and I’m being told its worth less than I owe so I’m not seeing the effect of this so called boom. Willing to deal directly with buyer.
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